<aside> 📩 Got the invite? Tell us in your group with Superteam Balkan before you book the call. We'll do a mock interview with you first.

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Colosseum interviews the strongest submissions before it picks hackathon winners and its next accelerator cohort. This page is what we've learned about that call from our teams' interviews.

In short

• one Zoom call, usually 15 minutes and sometimes up to 30, with two or three people from the Colosseum team
• it's a conversation, not a pitch. Teams invited this round were asked not to pitch, so read the invite email and do what it says
• it usually opens with "What are you building, and why does it need to exist?"
• the team comes first, then traction, then everything else
• they will push back on your idea on purpose to see how you react
• open with your strongest proof and with what has changed since you submitted
• almost every team in past cohorts won a hackathon prize first: 61 of 65

🗓️ When the invite comes

🎥 What they look at before the call

🔍 What they look for

🏛️ What the accelerator offers

❓ Questions to expect

📝 What we've learned from our teams

✅ Before the call

💻 On the call

📅 If you have a week